Domino’s Pizza owner wins injunction on birth control mandate

posted at 10:21 am on January 2, 2013 by Mary Katharine Ham

We had this in headlines a couple of days ago, but many probably missed it over the holidays. It’s enough of a departure from other recent decisions that it’s worth posting here, and I have a feeling we could use a little good news on a bad day.

“They’re not going to comply with the mandate,” said Kyle Duncan, general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Hobby Lobby. “They’re not going to offer coverage for abortion-inducing drugs in the insurance plan.”

“The family operates 514 Hobby Lobby stores in 41 states and employ 13,240 people,” according to reporting. But for how long?

But hey, no one’s saying you can’t be Catholic or Christian, guys. Just don’t get any ideas about starting a business.

Update: Just a note, in response to a comment. I was distinguishing between evangelical Christians/Protestants and Catholics in the above sentence because their objections on the issue of birth control, specifically, are doctrinally different. They’re pretty much indistinguishable on the morning-after pill and religious freedom in the case of this mandate, however, which is why you see Hobby Lobby’s evangelical owners and Monaghan fighting on the same side, and thank goodness. I should have said evangelical Christians or Protestants to avoid implying Catholicism precludes Christianity, which obviously I don’t believe.

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